Maeven Monday Played Zoo Tycoon 2 (science, math) Watched an episode of Nova (science) Did chores (laundry, cat food/water/litter boxes, swept) (Home Ec) Heard a chapter from: Harry Potter and […]
Beware of false history textbooks
I read an interesting article this morning, which I found because someone had tweeted that site’s previous article about altered history textbooks. Fascinating, and scary, stuff! It makes me really […]
Interesting flashback
Saturday I got a blast from my past. Very interesting to me because I just am usually not exposed to this crap anymore these days…so I really notice it when […]
Amazing new math game!
I stumbled upon the “SumStacker” iPhone app awhile back, a math game for kids, and was REALLY impressed with it! So I checked out the website of the developer of […]
LINK: The “Tyranny” of Socialization
This article explains VERY WELL how ludicrous it is for the question of socialization to even come up as a concern for us homeschoolers. I encourage you to share this […]
Math Without Words
Have you heard about “Math Without Words”?? I haven’t yet had a chance to buy this and check it out, but I am really interested in it just by what […]
Have you heard of “Finger Math”?
I have heard of it but never learned anything about it til today. I was listening to a podcast by “The Relaxed Homeskool” (found on iTunes, show #15) and heard […]
Math Salon
Now here’s a fascinating idea!! I am so going to explore this idea now! Here’s a great link with more ideas on this sort of thing…specifically on How to start […]
summer’s end
ok summer isn’t officially over yet. but its feeling nearer to the end. the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter! it was an absolutely gorgeous weekend, […]
time to drag out my playful parenting book
tyren is seriously exhausting us. just in the past couple weeks he has been throwing the most hideous tantrums and fighting us on everything, and i mean EVERYTHING. good god […]
switching gears again
so i spent the vast majority of yesterday plotting out what i feel i need to get done to feel better about maeven’s education. i’d been going in an unschooling […]
Just do the math!
wow wow wow…just followed a link in a comment to the post i linked in my last post (did you get that?)…and WOW. here it is. this is just what […]